Main news of November 5

* The death toll in a fire at a retirement home in the central Russian region of Tula on Sunday rose to 31 people as emergency workers cleared the site, the emergencies ministry said

* Floods have killed at least 48 people in central Vietnam in the past week, a disaster management center spokesman said

* The bodies of nine hunters were found in a wooded area in the southern Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, where police suspect they were killed after running across a militant group, a police source said

* Police and troops have cordoned off Supreme Court buildings in Pakistan's four provinces and courts in major cities to prevent opposition lawyers from holding protests against emergency rule

* Thousands of opposition supporters protested for the fourth consecutive day in Georgia's capital demanding the president's resignation and earlier elections

* Poland's outgoing prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynsky, resigned with his government after his conservative and nationalist party lost elections last month

* A deal to build a leg of a major Russian oil pipeline to China will not be signed during Prime Minister Wen Jibao's visit to Moscow on Tuesday, a Russian government source said